by ianp1970 » Mon May 28, 2018 9:35 pm
m@tt wrote:Not good. Not good at all.
Buttler - poor first innings but second innings was encouraging. Still, need centuries not occasional fifties.
Doubt we'll see many centuries at 7! Certainly no more than Bairstow could produce from there...
The old middle order seemed ok - to a certain extent! - with the top order not performing. The selector(s) answer appears to be: move the batting middle order up one (well Bairstow up 2, with Stokes staying put) and replace the bowling middle order with a non-keeping WK and a debutant bowler - albeit one who batted well in the second innings.
Root and Malan (still unproven - but we have bigger fires to deal with first!) both seem a place too high, Bairstow possibly two - if Stokes is cemented at 6 - and we don't have a competent opening pair! How about trying a third opener (Gubbins?) at 3 instead...
Oh for days of Strauss, Cook, Trott, Pietersen, Bell
As an aside Matt, can your search engine calculate a percentage of total centuries scored by those from a no. 7?Even better if it can omit a non-WK/AR...
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